Cash shop confirmed

[NozomiKei]

why not? allied seals aren't going to help you win. the most allied seals are going to do for you is give you what every fresh 50 gets within 2 hours anyways, an i90 set. if someone really wants to pay $20 for two hours worth of in game work, be my guest.

as long as you lock the highest levels of gear out of cash shop availability, it is merely another avenue of easy casual access to items. its not pay to win, its pay for convenience.

I'm reading through every page of this thread and couldn't help myself; I had to respond to this..... person...before I went on.

Allied seals can help you win by getting you sands and oils and alexandrites. I have all i110 stuff because I unweathered a crap ton of things with sands and oils from seals. I'm getting the large majority of my alexandrites from hunts -> i110 weapon. I put in a lot of time and energy on hunts to get these seals and buy seal exclusive things like my precious loincloth, my adorable succubus minion and the housing items I sold to make millions when seals were still new.

Also, the things I enjoy about this game are dressing my Elezen up and collecting pretty extras like mounts/minions (probably left over from a childhood filled with Pokemon XD), so them selling vanity items and making them exclusive to the cash shop is affecting my gaming negatively. I will be resisting buying anything from the cash shop no matter how much I may want it because I believe it is a massively bad decision and I don't want to support the corrupting and downfall of FFXIV. I've seen this trend enough to know where it's going and for those of you saying that we don't even know if it will get any worse: They have already proven that they will only get worse.
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[Rieze_Xeero]

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